Error mounting /dev/ad1s3

David Niergarth jdnier at tds.net
Sat Oct 29 21:55:05 PDT 2005


Hi Peter,

Thanks for the quick feedback.

>> I went back and tried this. Problem now is that the DiskLabel Editor 
>> is not letting me specify the size of the filesystem. I select my 
>> slice, type "C" to create. I can choose either "swap" or "file system" 
>> but whichever I pick, it automatically uses all available space, 
>> leaving nothing for anything else.
> 
> 
>  Yep, that's the downside for having to do this.

So no swap? Is this the "fdisk not working" problem? Just wondering if 
this is a short or long-term problem (and if I wan't to install RC-1 now 
or wait a bit).

>  I didn't put the ports system onto the RC1 CD. There also aren't any 
> pre-built packages, so you'll have to grab the ports tree from 
> freebsd.org and built ports manually.

Ah, of course.

Thanks,

--David


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